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Eugene Rivers, an undergraduate on leave from the College, plans to publish his allegations of discrimination at Harvard in an upcomming book, "How Harvard Rules." The account maintains that Epps' race cost him a fair shot at the College's top deanship and that similar institutional prejudice prevented Senior Admissions Officer David L. Evans from serious consideration as Director of Admissions when that job opened up last summer. Rivers claims that despite 16 years as dean of students, Epps was not even interviewed for the job by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence. The lack of Blacks...
This week an obscure literary journal, Druzhba Narodov (Friendship of Peoples), will publish the first of three monthly installments of Anatoli Rybakov's startling novel, Children of the Arbat, which takes place during Stalin's reign of terror. The publication has been eagerly anticipated by Soviet intellectuals for more than a year, and many are hailing it as the literary event of their generation. People who have already read the novel are heaping praise on it. "This is a great book, a great moment in our literature," declared Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. "Rybakov was the man to do this...
...book's publication is due in large part to Rybakov's patience. Says he: "Twice before, in 1966 and 1978, it was announced that this book would be published. Both times it was stopped. This time I believe it will succeed." For all those 20 years Rybakov rejected offers to publish it in the West despite the frustration of repeated rejection by Soviet authorities. "My people and my country need this novel," he says. "It must be published at home before it is published abroad...
...sent a bulky dossier to their counterparts in Brussels. The file contained details of the shipment of Swedish war materiel destined for Iran through the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Last week Martin Ardbo, the managing director of Bofors weapons division, abruptly resigned. This week the Swedes are expected to publish the results of a customs investigation that, it is believed, will show that an intricate network of European smugglers has used almost all the North European countries as transit points for weapons trade with Iran...
...program would spur the U.S.S.R. to disarmament talks. The SDI program impedes negotiations. The scientist also proposed his own version of how to achieve a 50% cut in nuclear weapons." Western radio stations have also reported my views imprecisely and incompletely. This reinforced my decision to publish the complete text of my speeches at the forum...